How To Build a Web Scraper From Scratch
The internet has significantly disrupted human lives. No other technology innovation has touched so many people, impacted so many businesses as the internet has. Today, if we look around us, we will see people logging on to the internet for practically everything in their daily lives. Be it shopping, finding new places, booking cabs, or […]
Read MoreCan Human Jobs be taken over by Artificial Intelligence?
Professor Stephen Hawking says Artificial intelligence could be the biggest threat to humanity. The future of civilization depends on how thinking machines could be used. It can either be the best thing that could happen to humans or the worst. Probably everybody has heard about what is Artificial Intelligence, but relatively few people know how […]
Read MoreExtracting Data With Frequent Changes In Website Format
Automated web data extraction has become an invaluable component of business intelligence given the power of free data scattered across the web. While there’s no doubt about how useful web data can be for organizations in improving efficiency, identifying customer sentiment and gaining competitive intelligence, the fact remains that extracting data from the web comes […]
Read MoreHow data aggregation creates new possibilities for your business
Data aggregation helps companies assess their competition, understand their target market, and improve customer satisfaction. Today, there are companies focused on data aggregation as a specialty, which means ready-to-use data is accessible to anyone who wants to use it for a multitude of use cases. What you can do with the data is only limited […]
Read MoreHow Crawling the Dark Web Can Help Curb Crime
You might think that you have full access to the internet, but the truth is your access is limited to the tip of an iceberg that the web really is. Search engines like google can only access the surface web, which makes up to about.03 percent of the whole web. The rest is called dark […]
Read MoreMark van Rijmenam Interview: Blockchain, Big Data, and More
Mark van Rijmenam is the Founder of Datafloq. He is a highly sought-after international public speaker, a Big Data strategist and author of the best-selling book Think Bigger – Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. He has been named as a global top 10 Big Data influencer. Currently, he is pursuing PhD at University […]
Read MoreBig Data Could Mean the Death of Subjectivity
We still live in a world where the majority of the decisions are made based on intuition and assumptions. As a race, humanity has been doing just fine with them, but why be fine when we can be better? Big data is being talked about by everyone these days. Advertisers, healthcare specialists, social scientists, and […]
Read MoreHow Apple Could’ve Used Web Crawling for Counterfeit Detection on Amazon
Could Apple have Identified Counterfeit Products by Web Crawling Amazon? Well, two of the biggest names in tech were recently in news for something they both weren’t happy about. Apple figured out that most of the chargers and lightning cables being sold on Amazon as genuine Apple accessories were in fact counterfeit products. The irony […]
Read MoreHow to Use Web Crawling to Detect Fraud
Web crawling and scraping solutions can often be misconstrued in negative light, in absence of legal and technological information in this field. Contrary to unpopular belief, data scraping technique deploys automated bots to visit and extract data from the web, and is gaining significant importance. Web crawling, just like any other technology, can be used […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight – Selvam
Meet Selvam Vasu, the man behind the stage ensuring a smooth run for our servers and infrastructure. Being the devops-guru, he makes sure nothing ever breaks, and in case something does, Selvam is always ready to work his magic and fix it within no time. He believes that a web server is similar to the […]
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